• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Oxford University Strategic Studies Group
• Timing: Tuesdays at 7.00pm

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - Trump, Europe and NATO: Back to the Future
  Dr Seth Johnston (Harvard)

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - The Utilities and Challenges of Western Security Force Assistance
  Major Ivor Wiltenburg (Changing Character of War Centre Visiting Fellow)

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - Security in East Asia
  Sir Tim Hitchens (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - ’Whitehall Warriors’ National Security & Defence Policy & Operations: A Beginners’ Guide
  Commander Damian Exworthy (Changing Character of War Centre Visiting Fellow)

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - Islam in a Changing World: Reform and the Battle of Narratives
  Ed Husain (Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars; Quilliam; Civitas)

Tuesday 13 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Spacepower and its Impact on Global Strategy
  Dr Michael Martindale (US Space Force Association)

Tuesday 20 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Far Right Terrorism in 2020: Threats, Drivers, and Responses
  Javed Ali (Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council)

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Great Power Competition and Conflict: The Effect of Technological Change
  Lieutenant General Michael Nagata (US Army)

Tuesday 3 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - European Defence in a Time of Global Change
  Dr Daniel Fiott (EUISS)

Tuesday 10 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - How Public Opinion Reflects Policy Across Europe
  Dr Susi Dennison (Director of European Power Program)

Tuesday 17 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Journalism and Pandemics in an Era of Media Distrust
  Helene Cooper (New York Times Pentagon Correspondent)

Tuesday 1 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - The Effects of Political Polarization on Democratic Erosion
  Dr Robert Blair (Director of Democratic Erosion Consortium)

Tuesday 19 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:00 - The Case for a National Cyber Security Director
  Former Congressman Mike Rogers

Tuesday 26 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:00 - Can a Dictatorship be a Member of the EU?
  Professor Timothy Garton Ash (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:00 - The Strategic Importance of GPS
  Kishan Patel (US Space Force)

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:00 - Security: What's Climate Change Got to Do with It?
  Dr Geoffrey D Dabelko (Ohio University)

Tuesday 16 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:00 - Xenowar: Computational Clausewitz, the PRC/CCP Cryptosphere and Strategic Society Mechanisms for a Planetary Era
  Tom Sear (University of New South Wales)

Tuesday 23 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:00 - Why Nations Rise
  Professor Manjari Chatterjee Miller (Boston University)

Tuesday 2 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:00 - Bringing Defence into the 21st Century
  Dr Will Roper (US Air Force)

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:00 - Key Policy Challenges Facing Biden in his First Year
  Dr Lindsay Newman (IHS Markit)

Tuesday 12 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - The Catastrophe in Afghanistan, Competition with China, and the Need to Rebuild Strategic Competence
  HR McMaster

Tuesday 26 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 20:00 - Russia and its Armed Forces: A view from the British Embassy
  Captain Chris Connolly OBE

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 20:00 - How ISIS Fights: present and future of nonstate combat effectiveness
  Dr Omar Ashour

Tuesday 9 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - UK-France Security and Defence Cooperation in a Post-Brexit World
  Dr Alice Pannier, Admiral Luc Pagès, Dr Benedict Wilkinson

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - The American War in Afghanistan: Why We Failed
  Dr Carter Malkasian

Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 20:00 - Scottish Foreign and Defence Policy and the Implications of Scottish Independence
  Dame Mariot Leslie DCMG

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 20:00 - Overseas Counter-Terrorism - how does the West defeat Al-Qaida and Islamic State?
  Will Evans OBE

Tuesday 8 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - Human Rights at Sea: Problems and Prospects
  Professor Steven Haines

Friday 11 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:00 - The Twitter War for Nagorno-Karabakh
  Major Bruce Gudmunsson

Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - Machine Intelligence and the Changing Keys to Power
  Lt Col Al Brown (Visting Fellow Oxford University and CCW)

Tuesday 22 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - China-India Relations and the Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific
  Commodore Abhay Kumar Singh

Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - Major Ideas and Ideologies in Far Right Movements
  Professor Peter Neumann

Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - Decentring EU Foreign Policy
  Dr Sarah Wolff

Tuesday 26 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 20:30 - 30th Anniversary of the Collapse of the USSR: the Rapid Demise and Long-term Consequences
  Kataryna Wolczuk (University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 3 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 20:30 - Psycho-Social Perspectives Missing from Discussions about the War on Ukraine
  Dr Sarah Wolff

Tuesday 10 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 20:30 - Is The Russian Army Rotten?
  Shashank Joshi (The Economist)

Tuesday 17 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 20:30 - American Grand Strategy After Ukraine
  Dr Peter Feaver

Tuesday 24 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 20:30 - Russkiy Mir Expansionism, Ukraine's Military Successes, and Russian Failures
  Aurimas Navys

Tuesday 7 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 20:30 - UK Space Command, A Year On
  Air Vice-Marshal Paul Godfrey (UK Space Command)

Tuesday 11 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 20:00 - Putin's War: Narratives, Mobilisation, and Perceptions
  Arkady Ostrovsky (The Economist)

Tuesday 18 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 20:30 - Tracing Dirty Russian Money and Getting the World to React + 'Follow the Money' Workshop
  Šarūnas Černiauskas (Siena.It)

Tuesday 25 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 20:30 - Russia's Information Warfare in Theory and Practice [on Zoom]
  Dr. Bilyana Lilly (Krebs Stamos Group)

Tuesday 1 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 20:30 - Lessons from Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
  Dr Jack Watling (RUSI)

Tuesday 15 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 20:30 - The New Cold War: Winners and Losers
  Edward Lucas (The Economist)

Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 20:30 - The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War
  Neta Crawford

Tuesday 29 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 20:30 - Russia's Defence Industry Under Sanctions
  Dr Richard Connolly (Royal United Services Institute)

Tuesday 17 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - Russia's Air War in Ukraine
  Justin Bronk (RUSI)

Tuesday 24 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - Russia's Arms Industry Under Sanctions
  Richard Connolly (RUSI)

Tuesday 31 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - Can Espionage be Ethical?
  Professor Cecile Fabre (Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College)

Tuesday 7 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - European Security and the Global Markets: Estonia's Outlook
  Mr Viljar Lubi (Embassy of Estonia) (Estonian Ambassador to the United Kingdom)

Tuesday 21 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - China's "No Limits" Ties with Russia: the View from Beijing
  James Miles (China writer-at-large, the Economist)

Tuesday 28 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - The Challenge of Democracy Promotion
  Congressman David Price (US House of Representatives)

Tuesday 7 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:30 - Geopolitics of Belarus in Ukraine Context
  Laurynas Jonavičius (Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania)